This has been done before here: http://hackaday.com/2009/07/20/touchpad-and-vfd-hacking/ but the links to the details are dead so there seemed to be a good excuse to do it again. I haven't seen anyone demo the buttons and LEDs before either. The board isn't really very practical to reuse but it was fun to mess around with. I believe the M66004 VFD driver IC is also used in some Hi-Fi equipment also.

Library, sketch and other details are available here: http://arduino.cc/playground/Main/M66004Vfd

YES! I have had this VFD board sitting in my drawer for about a year now, itching to use it in a project.

Thank you very much for documenting this, extremely helpful! Thank you even more for the PM to inform me of your post!

*Tips hat*

:: Update ::Got a chance to hook mine up and try it, and it works! Mine only had 9 pins in a single row though, so I had to determine the correct connections for mine with a bit of trial and error (along with some help from a multi-meter)

Hello, The past days i received a RM1-5059 HP control panel, i searched on the web for some solution to interface it with the arduino uno v3. Found some libraries for it http://playground.arduino.cc/Code/HpLaserJetLcd but it don't work. I have the IDE v1.5.5 if someone may help me with the correct libraries or some tip will be great.Reply